Jessica Walter

You might think that Mitchell Hurwitz, the creative mastermind behind the oddball cult comedy "Arrested Development," would be overjoyed to hear about the crowds thronging the Bluth's Original Frozen Banana Stands popping up across the country.

But late last week, just days after completing the 15 new "Arrested Development" episodes that will debut on Netflix Sunday, Hurwitz was feeling a little overwhelmed. The long lines outside the sweet dispensaries offered a clever bit of inside-joke promotion — "There's always money in the banana stand" — and a visual representation of the sky-high expectations for the show's return.